There is possibly nothing more boring than listening to people detail how they spent the previous night, if they spent the previous night drinking and the reason they are telling you how they spent it is to make you understand why they are feeling and the degree to which they are feeling like garbage today. (Things that ARE possibly more boring are people talking about accomplishments in video games, people talking about what they do for a living if what they do for a living is boring, people talking about stuff that happened on Twitter, people talking about different ways to get to a place using the subway, people talking about where streets are, and of course the classic “people talking about their dreams.”) But somehow this Charles Bukowski story, which mostly gets over the drinking part and heads right to the “worst hangover” part, is different? I can’t really put my finger on why, but it definitely feels different than other “worst hangover” stories I’ve heard. Maybe it’s because of the jacket he’s wearing? You take a look and see what you think.

I don’t know, on second listen I guess it’s normal. We get it, buddy! We’ve all had hangovers! (Via TWBE.)

That reminds me, I wanted to tell you guys that I finally beat the Goddess’s Silent Realm in Skyward Sword last weekend! I got caught by the guardians like four times first, but then I finally did it! Even though I only found one dusk relic, I was even more excited about it than the other day when I had a dream that Benedict Cumberbatch was my dentist and he was going to remove my wisdom teeth. I totally tweeted about that and no one retweeted… WTF? Thanks for listening, good talk!

I occasionally tweet my dreams, you guys should follow me. I didn’t have one last night though. But my neighbor knocked on my door to tell me he was moving out, he’s moving to Chicago on 12 hours’ notice due to a dying stepmother, so he wanted to give me his car key so I could handle his car for him, and I said sure. Later, he knocked again, but I’d drunk wine and was asleep, but I woke up, but I was disoriented. If I remember the dream that got interrupted, I’ll post it, but that’s pretty hopeless. Anyway I said good-bye and he explained where his car was. It took him a long time to find the words even though it was parked almost exactly in front of the building. #relevantstory

He tells stories like someone’s really kind grandpa. Someone’s really kind, gruff, totally inappropriate for children grandpa. I bet if you were nursing a hangover and listen to Bukowski tell you stories with that 70s (80s?) piano in the background, you’d feel a little better. Not much, but a little.

When I worked in a coffee shop inside a book store, a lady worked in the book store who had also been a nurse or a hospice worker or something, and she attended to Bukowski on his death bed. He assumed she had no idea who he was. One day, very near the end, he reached for her hand and said, “I used to be a poet, you know.” And she just said, “Really? I bet you were a great one. I can tell about you.”

I asked if I could shake her hand that held his hand and she did, and gave me a hug.

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